Re: [ft] [ft-devel] Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek fonts questions

[Eben Sorkin]

Maybe you are right. I am not sure.

The ideal thing would be for FreeType to suppress this difference in the EF at 
small heights and let it register at larger ones. 

The real problem might come if it changes its mind intermittently. It is that 
kind of irregularity that will send the most serious people off to manual 
hinting again.

What do you expect will happen? I am about to find out because i am adding 
Cyrillic to Merriweather and will be hinting it with TTFA. :-)

-e.



On Sep 23, 2013, at 4:14 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> 
>> I think the Cambria example represents a process of making different
>> things the same for the sake of leaving a simpler technology in
>> place.  It would be great if Freetype embraced the exceptional or
>> more diverse behavior of Cyrillic.
> 
> Thanks for the instructive images.  However, the height differences
> are only visible if the ppem value is quite large.  Given that the
> auto-hinter ignores blue zones larger than ¾px (this is, if the
> difference between `overshoot' height and `flat' height is larger than
> ¾px), I think this is a non-issue.
> 
> As soon as HarfBuzz support is possible, small caps will get a
> separate set of blue zones, as will be the case for other
> typographical features.
> 
> 
>    Werner